| Bikers are not the only
group of road users that consider themselves "targeted" The max power brigade can enjoy similar attention and are they so different from bikers?
Far too many bikers are getting killed on the roads, you can do what you like with the statistics to show that accidents per mile travelled are reducing, car drivers are responsible for X percent of accidents etc etc. But the fact remains that a disproportniate number of bikers get killed.
One aspect of this does puzzle me a bit. It is now far easier to get hold of a seriously powerful car, usually a Jap Turbo but the roads don't seemed to be littered with wrecks?
IMHO there is a element of lack of respect for the lives of others and even a lack of respect for ones own life that causes people to behave like they do on the roads.
The police should be pulling up everyone who uses the roads in a manner that shows a lack of respect for others or themselves, cars, bikers, vans, trucks you name it, Not relying on Cameras that catch only one sort of offence at a specific location.
The decline in driving standards in the UK has got that bad that personally I feel safer in Italy!!
North Yorkshire had a very bad year last year for bike deaths but thankfully they appear to have resisted the temptation to go for fixed cameras. Instead they are trying the education route through bikesafe and seeking riders views on what could and should be done.
Enough philosophy for Monday Morning
Ray  |